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Curriculum Vitae

Brianna A. Smith Political Science

267 19th Ave S., Suite 1414

Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 315-591-2455

Email:

Website: briannaalesiasmith.wordpress.com

Education

2012– University of Minnesota

PhD Candidate, Political Science

Projected completion Spring 2018

MA in Political Science, Spring 2015

Fields: American Politics, Methods, minor in Political Psychology

Dissertation: It’s All Under Control: The Conditional Effects of Threat

Committee: Dr. Paul Goren (advisor), Dr. Joanne Miller, Dr. Howard Lavine, Dr. Christopher Federico, Dr. Lawrence Jacobs

2008–2012 Tufts University

BA in Psychology, Political Science, and German Studies

Advisors: Dr. Ayanna Thomas, Dr. David Art, and Dr. Saskia Stoessel.

Summa Cum Laude with highest thesis honors

Research Interests

American politics, public opinion, elections and representation, political psychology, survey methodology

Teaching Interests

American politics, political psychology, public opinion and elections, politics of discrimination, quantitative methodology

Refereed Publications

Smith, Brianna A., Zein Murib, Matthew Motta, Timothy H. Callaghan, and Marissa Theys. ‘“Gay” or “Homosexual”? The Implications of Social Category Labels for the Structure of Mass Attitudes.’ American Politics Research (2017). doi: 10.1177/1532673X17706560

Available at z.umn.edu/smithapr

Covered by the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, z.umn.edu/wpostsmith

Motta, Matthew P., Timothy H. Callaghan, and Brianna A. Smith. "Looking for Answers: Identifying Search Behavior and Improving Knowledge-Based Data Quality in Online Surveys." International Journal of Public Opinion Research (2016). doi: 10.1093/ijpor/edw027

Available at z.umn.edu/smithijpor

Chen, Philip G., Jacob Appleby, Eugene Borgida, Timothy H. Callaghan, Pierce Ekstrom, Christina E. Farhart, Elizabeth Housholder, Hannah Kim, Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz, Howard Lavine, Matthew D. Luttig, Ruchika Mohanty, Aaron Rosenthal, Geoff Sheagley, Brianna A. Smith, Joseph A. Vitriol and Allison Williams. "The Minnesota Multi‐Investigator 2012 Presidential Election Panel Study." Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 14.1 (2014): 78-104. doi: 10.1111/asap.12041

Grants, Awards and Honors

2017-2018 University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship

2015-2016 Graduate Research Partnership Program Fellowship with Dr. Paul Goren

2015 Center for the Study of Political Psychology Conference Travel Grant

2014 Center for the Study of Political Psychology Research Grant

2013 Political Networks Conference Travel Grant

2012-2013 Clara Uehland Fellowship

2012 Phi Beta Kappa member through Massachusetts Delta Chapter

2010–2011 Merrill and Rindge Scholarship

Conference Presentations

Smith, Brianna A. “When the Worst is Yet to Come: Threat, Perceived Control, and Political Polarization.” International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting, July 2017.

Smith, Brianna A. “When the Worst is Yet to Come: The Conditional Effects of Threat on Political Engagement.” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 2017.

Smith, Brianna A. “When the Worst is Yet to Come: The Distinct Political Effects of Inevitable and Preventable Threats.” Doing Rhetoric Conference: Political Rhetoric and the Politics of the Rhetorical, September 2016.

Smith, Brianna A. “When the Worst is Yet to Come: The Distinct Political Effects of Inevitable and Preventable Threats.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2016.

Kim, Hannah, Pierce Ekstrom, Brianna A. Smith and Allison Williams. “Social Networks, Campaigns, and Informed Candidate Preferences.” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 2016.

Smith, Brianna A. and Paul Goren. “Values, Cognitive Engagement, and Public Opinion: A Hard Test of Citizen Competence.” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 2016.

Smith, Brianna A., Zein Murib, Matthew Motta, Timothy Callaghan and Marissa Theys. “’Gay’ or ‘Homosexual’: The Policy Implications of Question Wording Effects.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2015.

Working Papers

Values, Cognitive Engagement, and Public Opinion: A Hard Test of Citizen Competence

Goren, Paul and Brianna A. Smith

Under review at American Political Science Review

When the Worst is Yet to Come: Threat, Perceived Control, and Political Polarization

Smith, Brianna A.

It’s All Under Control: The Conditional Effects of Threat on Political Engagement

Smith, Brianna A.

Social Networks and Informed Candidate Preferences

Ekstrom, Pierce, Brianna A. Smith, Allison Williams and Hannah Kim

Search Engine Use and the Relationship Between Political Knowledge and Political Participation

Brianna A. Smith

Research Experience

2015 Institute for Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research attendee

2013–2015 Research Assistant for Dr. Lawrence Jacobs, University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Policy and Affairs, and Dr. Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University Department of Government

2013 Research Assistant on the Poll Workers and Election Security project, headed by Dr. Lawrence Jacobs, Doug Chapin, Dana Chisnell, and Whitney Quesenberry (Center for Civic Design).

2011–2012 Senior Honors Thesis: Variations in Probability Judgment

Research supervisors: Dr. Richard Chechile, Dr. Holly Taylor.

2009–2010 Research Assistant for Tufts University’s Psychology Department, in Dr. Richard Chechile’s Memory and Cognition Lab.

Courses Taught

2016 POL 3769: Public Opinion and Voting Behavior (61 students)

2016 POL 3766: Political Psychology of Mass Behavior (14 students)

Teaching Assistantships

2017 POL 3323: Political Tolerance in the United States (Dr. Howard Lavine, 83 students)

2016 POL 3085: Quantitative Analysis in Political Science (Dr. Joanne Miller, 55 students)

2015 POL 3767: Political Psychology of Elite Decision Making (Dr. C. Daniel Myers, 74 students)

Service:

2015 Graduate student representative, University of Minnesota methods faculty search committee

2015 Proposal review committee, Minnesota Driven to Discover survey experiment panel

2014-2015 Social Life Subcommittee, Graduate Student Life Committee

Professional Memberships

American Political Science Association

International Society of Political Psychology

Midwest Political Science Association

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